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Expert at nanny trial details kids’ stab wounds
THE UPPER West Side nanny accused of the 2012 killing of a 6-year-old girl and her 2-yearold brother sat stone-faced as a medical examiner described the extensive knife wounds that killed the children.
Yoselyn Ortega, 55, sat emotionless at the defense table through the testimony of forensic pathologist Susan Ely, who detailed each of the 30 knife wounds inflicted on Lucia (Lulu) Krim during the Oct. 25, 2012, attack in the children’s W. 75th St. apartment.
Jurors were shown diagrams of where each wound was found on the little girl’s head, neck, torso, arms and hands — and, unlike Ortega, were visibly disturbed by the testimony. One appeared to be shaking afterwards. Ely testified that the injuries to Lulu's arms and hands proved there was “quite a lot of movement and struggle to get away from this knife.”
“Lucia Krim had her hands up at some point while she was being stabbed,” she testified.
“In some way they got between the knife and her body during the course of the violence.”
Ely testified that Lulu’s little brother Leo also suffered vicious knife wounds. He may not have seen his attacker, who could have come from behind, although the autopsy results are not conclusive, she said.
The little boy sustained five knife wounds. The kids were left in a bathtub to bleed out, prosecutors said.
Later in the day, NYPD Detective Jennifer O’Connell testified that she was able to tell the children were dead immediately.
“Their eyes were opened, and it looked as if nothing was in there. They were staring at each other,” she said.
She also recalled encountering their anguished mom, Marina Krim, who’d found the bodies.
O’Connell said she held the hand of the inconsolable mom as she recounted the horrific discovery.
The former baby-sitter is using an insanity defense.
She faces life in prison if convicted of the top charges of firstdegree murder.